Mediocrity Quotes
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Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself-anyone who thinks that they do is destined for mediocrity.
Donald Trump -
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Oscar Wilde
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Mediocrity is not worth the trip.
Sergio Marchionne -
Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
Oscar Wilde -
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Oscar Wilde -
Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
Oscar Wilde -
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
Rachel Cusk -
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
H. L. Mencken
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
J. K. Simmons -
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
Benjamin Cardozo -
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Oscar Wilde -
Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
Kevin Spacey -
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
Anthony Daniels -
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Oscar Wilde -
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Orison Swett Marden
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli -
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Napoleon Hill -
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.
Eddie McGuire -
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Patrick Kavanagh